THURSDAY, JAN 12

Slaven Bilic reports angrily today that the French star is refusing to play. And with this attitude I suppose that probably sooner rather than later he will be on his way.

We have already made him our highest-paid player but there has been plenty of evidence recently of his lost motivation. We will carry on trying to keep him, of course, but his attitude will affect the whole team unless it changes radically.

Personally I would not sell him for any price.

After all if every player did not respect the validity of their contract, the result would be chaos.